Henry Cowell (industrialist)
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For the musician of the same name, see Henry Cowell.
Henry Cowell (1819?-1903) was an industrialist and philanthropist who made his fortune developing lime kilns in Santa Cruz County, California.[1] The Cowell Lime Works Historic District in Santa Cruz is expected, as of November 2007, to be listed soon on the National Register of Historic Places. The Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is named after him.
[edit] References
- ^ See "Who was Henry Cowell?"
[edit] External links
- Who Was Henry Cowell?
- Santa Cruz and the Cowell Ranch, 1890-1964 Oral history of Cardiff, George H.(1872-1966) 1964, xvii, 395 pp., 5 illus., 1 map.

